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In search of...BLUE pumpkins


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#1 JerzeeTomato

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:36 AM

While digesting my daily food blogs I came across this
http://eggbeater.typ..._perfected.html
Shuna is a huge talent.
I think the blue pumpkin is just something I have to make a few pies with.
Anyone see any? PA, DE, MD?
If you have please post. :blink:

#2 jmbrightman

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:44 AM

While digesting my daily food blogs I came across this
http://eggbeater.typ..._perfected.html
Shuna is a huge talent.
I think the blue pumpkin is just something I have to make a few pies with.
Anyone see any? PA, DE, MD?
If you have please post. :blink:

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Duffield's in Washington Twp (South Jersey) had 15 varieties, I believe one was blue. http://www.duffieldsfarm.com/

#3 cakewalk

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 11:08 AM

Why does this make me think of purple cows? :wacko:

On a coincidental note, I just found that eggbeaters blog this morning and liked it a lot. (Didn't see the pumpkins though.)

#4 matthewj

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Posted 31 October 2007 - 01:15 PM

none such farms, buckingham, below peddlers village on 263 north

#5 townsend

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 11:00 AM

Also check out Blue Hubbard and Grey Hubbard squash...they make great soups. Shadybrook Farms, Yardley, Exit 49 off 95N.

#6 zeffer81

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 05:39 PM

Linvilla Orchards? I was just there last week and don't remember all of the colors, but they definitely had a wide variety. Sounds fun!

#7 rlibkind

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 08:11 PM

The Fair Food Farmstand has gray hubbards, which tend to be blue and are sometimes referred to as blue hubbards. Orange/creamy inside, not blue.

It's great for decorating a table, and the flesh is fine. But if you're planning on cooking or baking, I think you're better off with a neck pumpkin. Fine tasting, and lots of seedless and easily prepped meat.
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#8 Mano

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Posted 02 November 2007 - 04:14 AM

In about 1985 didn't Sting come out with the album, "Dream of the Blue Pumpkins"?
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#9 insomniac

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Posted 02 November 2007 - 06:46 AM

a deeply orange and densely fleshed pumpkin I love from Oz is called the Queensland Blue....incredibly hard to cut and peel but well worth it for its intense flavour

#10 etalanian

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Posted 04 November 2007 - 10:46 AM

Maple Acre Farms in Plymouth Meeting has a wide assortment of pumpkins, including a few kinds of blue squash.

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